" . . . . ' " , i I ALL ARE ANXIOUS I I NOTHING HEARD FROM THE PORT ARTHUR SQUADRON. FIGHTING RUMORS CONFLICTING . ' .lIIt , ' t4 Russians at Port Arthur Said to Be Short of Ammunition-Another Story Aflottt thttt the Port Has Fallen. - - LONDON-Rumors that Port Arthur - thur hew fallen are again current , but . apparently there Is no further warrant , for them than on previous occasions. It Is regarded as impossible that Port 1 ' Arthur can hold out much longer , but there is no further news either concerning - ) , corning the fortress or the fate of the Port Arthur squadron beyond the statement from Chee Fee that the pro- tected cruisers Aslwld and ! Novlk have entered the port of KianclHlu , which Is ! German leased territory , According to the Che Fee corre- spondent of the Telegram the Japs , tried to blow up the Russian torpedo boat destroyer nleshltelnl and her crew had to swim for their lives. The ) ( i I same correspondent states that Lieu- . . tenant General Stoessel , the ...

Jr , . . - . - - - t. falls City Tribune , BY TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. FALLS CITY . , NEBRASKA L.- , John L. Sullivan Iii to open a care. In New YOI'I-ml ) nol with the dox ology. ' . Now the czar will set up the cigars for the boys , no mutter what happens at. Port Arthur. - "A stage holll up. " The pity Is that t It does nol happen oftener , for the I stage IW heeds such ald. , 4 That automobile which scalped n . II Woman In New York the other day I , , must have been a "rod devil. " A writer In llarper's asks , "Do : mon manage their wives ? " A good many or them lllrulllge to think they llo. At any rate It did not take ! the British - IHh half I\S long to get to Lhassa as It will take them to gel away from thero. Edward Atkinson says : that he con skiers the comlllontH on his slllollng I1n IlIIpCI.tlnencc. Now , of course , lhe11 IIlop. : IIn'l1 Is now having It revolution every thirty minutes ! : , mold apparently possesses a fair claim to the revolu . lion record. The stamp coll...

, , > . " ; . , r" . ' Try One Package. , . It "Defiance Starch" docs not please " . you return It to your dealer. It It .p. .  . 'Ii\ . does you cetone-thlrd more for the \ , same money. It will \ give you SUUM- . . . faction , and will not stick to the Iron. F , Oldest Tree. a . I The oldest tree In the world Is on , ' the Island of Kos , lying off the const of Asia Minor. The trunk Is thirty , , feet in circumference. A wall of a . , " masonry surrounds ! it and supports the two main branches. It Is believed ' . to be more than 2,000 years old. 1 ' . . . Cheerfulness and Grumbling. . . . : . How many people In real life there i I. are who are a perpetual drain on the sympathies of their more cheerful _ friends and neighbors ! They like to 1y" , . be comforted with strong , uplifting . I . ' \ ' words ; they appreciate cheerfulness " . . . , . ; -In others. It does not occur to ' : . tliem that It Is a cultivable quality , ' y" Just as grumbling Is. I " , - , Corn Birds Will N...

i \ ' 0 ' : " . l..fTf l. DARKEST BY II. G RATTAN UUNNELLY. RUSSIA J ; t t , Copyright , 1890 , by Street Smith , All rights rCGcrvCl1. t , . . _ - - " _ , , , _ nlNW'aC'tR. ' IPIA. . - " " " ' - - - - - - - - - - " . - - ' . . "U"- 1VVyw . XIII-Continued. I CHAPTER - RadaloIT had no lIen ! of the COI\ ' ' \ tents of the letter. But when Illla . had finished reading It he gave the "waiting" signal , and In response to the single strolte of the bell enter' ed the office to meet the Countess Knrslcherr , with the result already descrlhed. In vain ho attempted to explain to the countess that he round Udn a prisoner , she having been captured In the Nihilist rendezvous . rtczvous , hut the haughty and insulting . Ing manner In which he had been in terrupted each time he beatt ; his explanation - planation , had prevented him from giving that Important Information. Thus It was when llda entered her presence the countess Imew nothing of her arrest. The two women stood fac to face -alone. ...

, ' > . . t . . $ . . . . . is 'T SIXTEEN L KILLED I I ' BESIDES THERE IS A LONG LIST OF WOUNDED. - 1 \ A GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY 0 > A Destructive Gale Tears Down the Valley of the Mississippi at St. Paul . and Minneapolis-Losses Foot Up Into the Millions. ST. PAUL , l\Ilnn.-Deatil to sixteen persons and destruction to property , both private and public , estimated at 3,000,000 , r do on a screeching gale which tore down the valley of the MIssissippI at about 9 o'cloclt Satur- day nIght from a point somewhere near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi " 'rivers near Fort Snelling. At about that poInt the fury of the elements seemIngly di vided and , with n roar , descended upon the twin clUes and their envi- rons. Of the losses , St. Paul Buffered to the extent of about $1,000,000 , 4 Minneapolis Is estimated at $1GOOOOO while In he outsIde distrIcts It is j , feared that 00,000 [ ; will not cover . , the damage done to crops and farm propcrty. BegInning at a poInt b...

' . TICKLE 'f GRASS . + BY . ! . BYRON WlLLtAt15 f Ii' . . , The Suicide of Swallow. * . . . . Swallow was a "native. " Who ho was or from whence he came , none assumed so prehistoric a knowledge. v Like 'rops , he had "just happened , " away back in the dim , misty pioneer days of Higby , then a mere trading post , now a great city of meat strikes and cosmopolitan qUllrtel's t4 That is why all the newspaper hays know Swallow , knew him a8' a bril- liant but erratic disciple of special assignments - signments , apt to be flush today , a panhandler to.morrow , a man with an abused past and an uncertain In- tore made more vRclllating because of the "dope" habit. Many and many a time he had been counted down and out by the i gang , hut he rOSe up smil- Ing , like Truth , uncrushed-but hun- Irv. . - And then Swallow developed a toboggan - L , , boggan gait. The first of the month ' . : had found him the possessor of a I ; "cow.choklng wad , " as the slang par- iP : . lance of the club r...